Container



Dec. 7 1926.

s. 3H. SONN CONTAINER Filed March 25. 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR Dec. 7, 1926.

v S. H. SONN CONTAINER Filed March 25. 1924 2 Sheets-Sha e. 2

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SIDNEY H. SONN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CONTAINER.

Application filed March 25, 1924. Serial "No. 701,666. 7

Thisinvention relates to a box or 'hollow container and especially to :a'box which may be shipped in a'knocked down condition and be easily re-assembled by inexperienced persons when desired and is more particularly directed to a box of the nature described and especially suitable'to contain such arti cles as hats.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a box or'hollow container of the nature described which may be shipped in a knocked down conditionand which may be easily assembled by aninexperienced person when desired, which in the knocked down condition will 'be extremely compact and which will thus bea space saver and which maybe manufactured of such materials and by such process as willenable the finished article to be sold at a comparatively low 'cost.

A further object of "the invention is to provide a hollow container of the nature described Which "will when assembled 'be of azs'hape most desired by dealers, especially in Inillinery.

*Ot'her objects and advantages of the in vention will appear as thedescription of the particular physical embodiment selected to "illustrate the invention progresses, and the novel' features ofthe invention will be particularly pointed-out in 'the appended claim.

lnldescribing the invention in detail and the particular physical embodiment select.- ed to illustrate the invention, reference is Qhad'to "the accompanying drawing, wherein I have illustrated a particular preferred physicalembodiment-of my invention, and

wherein like charactersof reference designate corresponding parts "throughout the several views,"and in'whic'h: v

Figure "1, is a perspective View of my assembled and completed box or hollow container; Fig. 2, is a longitudinal cross section'al view cf my box with the cover re *moved; Fig.3, is a-transverse cross sectional view o-f'my'box; Fig. 4, is aplan'view of the sheet of material before being formed which constitutes when formed an end wall o'f my box; Fig. 5 illustrates themanner in which the end wall is folded back on the side wall when the knocked down box is being -'shi-pped; "Fi'g "6,'is ayperspective view of the cover of-my box; Fig. 7, isz'a detail view 'il lustrating a means for attachinga handle and holding the side walls at my completed box in place; 8, Lisa fragmentary en larged detail view illustrating how my end wall rests upon the side wall and'is attached thereto; "Fig; 9, is a vdetail View illustrating the preferred form of fastening the end wall to a side wall.

It is realized by those V'acquainted with such businesses, as the hat trade, and especially ladies hats, that it is -very desirable and in fact practically necessary forshops selling hats .to provide a boxinywhiclrahat, such as a ladys hat, may beacarried from :the store in such a way that it will not be injured or exposed/to view. It-is also well known that hats, especially :ladie's hats are often of large siz-ezand o'f asomewhatifragile nature so that thebox'or'hollowcontainer=within which they must be placed must be of a relatively large size and relatively strong so,iat least, to resist deformation by i any of the ordinary blows and shocks which might be encountered in transporting sucha box in crowded,localities such as :department stores or crowded elevated or esubwa'y ti-alns- It is also we'll known-that many 0f the better quality ladies millinery shops 'are, in large cities, of 'no great dimensions and space is extremely valuable-and limited so that'there is very often noravailable space in which to properly store any sufficient number of hollow containers or boxes with which to supply customers making purchases.

Applicant has attempted to overcome the difiiculties inherent 'in present date ,prac- "tices by providingra container or box which may be stored in a knocked down condition so that it will. occupy, -relatively, :a i very small-space. to the end-that-theclass of shops above mentioned may readi-lykeep several hundred of these knocked down containers 'andso protect themselves against anychance of exhausting their stock ofcontainers by I reason of a brisk trade and be further freed from the necessity of paying high rent for space in which to store a relatively small number of an exceedingly bulky group of ordinary containers.

In the drawings, Fig. 5, an end wall of applicants container, is designated 1. This end wall is made of sheet material such as cardboard and is substantially circular in outline except for the portion 2 which is the chord of a circle and on this chord a rectangle 3 is based there being agroove along the line 2 so that the end wall may bend along said line or chord.

Fig. 5, also illustrates a side wall 1 made of a single sheet of material, such as cardboard. This cardboard is properly grooved and turned up from the point 5, to the point 6 and from the point 7 tothe point 8, so that a turned over portion 9, as shown by 8 is formed. The side wall 4; is also grooved along the line 10 and along the line 11, so that a portion 12 and a portion 13 of the side wall may be bent over to lap upon the side wall.

The end wall 1, is attached, as shown by Fig. 5, to the sidewall 4 in any suitable or appropriate'manner but preferably by the wire staples 14 and 15 shown in Fig. 5 and in detail in Fig. 9.

Fig. 4, illustrates the end wall, 1, and the side wall 1, when the end wall 1 has been bent back along the line 2 preparatory to forming the box. After the end wall 1 has been positioned as shown by Fig. 4, the side wall 4 is brought up at a right angle thereto and then bent around the end wall 1 so that the sidewall takes the' form as shown by Fig. 3, and in doing this, the portion 12 is bent over as shown by Fig. 3 and engaged.

with the portion 13 bent over, as shown by Fig. 3, so that previously formed slits 1 1, 15 and 16 come in line and previously formed slits 17, 18 and 19 come in line so that clips as 20, Fig. 7, may be put therethrough and the ends thereof bent over as shown in Fig. 7. A clip as 20 being placed through the slits as 14:, 15 and 16 and another clip as 20 being placed through the slits 17 18 and 19 and the ends of both be ingbent over, as shown in Fig. 7, the side wall will be held in the position as shown by Fig. 3. When the side wall is held in the position as shown by Fig. 3, then the end wall 1 as shown by Fig. 2 and Fig. 8 will bear against the end of the overlapping j portion 9 which forms a shoulder and so the end wall 1 will be prevented from moving outwardly and will form a secure bottom or end wall for the container.

By reference to Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 it will be seen that the bent over and overlapping portions 12 and 13 form together a projection, designated in Fig. 3 as 21 which, as best shown in Fig. 2, projects out over the end wall 1 and so prevents the end wall from moving to the right, as shown in Fig. 2, that is, prevents what may be called the bottom of the box from moving inwardly. The bent over portion 9 and the projecting portion 21 thus form the lock for the end wall 1, thus securing it in place. 7

As it is desired to have a flattened portion on the box, the side wall at is grooved, as at 22 and 23, so that a flattened portion as 24; will be formed as best shown by Fig. 3,

which flattened portion may serve as a base upon which to stand the completed box which by reason of this flattened portion will have no tendency to roll.

In order to provide a means for carrying the box applicant has provided the clips as 20 with a portion formed with acircular orifice 25, within which an end of a handle 26 may be positioned so that, as best shown by Fig. 2, if one end of the handle is placed in the circular orifice 25 of one clip and the other end of the handle is placed in the circular orifice 25 of the other clip and the In my preferred construction I introduce an ornamental washer 27 between the upper portion 25 of the clip 20 and the side wall 4 of the box. This clip servesto give a finished appearance to the box and besides makes a much more secure and appropriate fastening to retain the ends of theside wall 1 in place and prevents any tendency for. the enlarged end 25 to draw through the relatively weak material of the side wall so that in efiect the ornamental washer 25 distributes force over a considerable area of the side wall 4.

container I also form a cover as shown by Fig. 6 which consists merely of an end wall 28 and a side wall 29 extending completely therearound. This cover may be made in any of the usual and appropriate ways as in order to carry out the purposes of invention, it merely needs to be made of such shape as to nicely fit the open end of my container.

From the description hereinbefore given, it will now be seen that applicant has provided a box or container which may be shipped in a. knocked down condition, that is, as shown by Fig. 5, with the end wall 1 bent over and lying on the'side wall 4 and a In order to completely enclose the hollow thus occupying relatively infinitely less space 7 the complete and assembled box by reason of the overlapping and somewhat interlocking ends of the side wall securely held together by clips is relatively strong and will be able to resist the deformation arising from forces to which it would ordinarily be subjected and that the bottom of the box of end wall is securely locked or held from movement either outwardly or inwardly. Applicants box by reason of its construction, being made, when considered has an uncovered hollow container, of two parts only is relatively inexpensive to manufacture and by reason of being made of light material such as for instance, cardboard is in its knocked down condition shipped at a relatively small cost.

Although I have particularly described the construction of one physical embodiment of my invention and explained the operation and principle thereof, nevertheless, I desire to have it understood that the form selected is merely illustrative but does not exhaust the possible physical embodiments As a hollow container a sheet of material of general rectangular shape grooved at two places about equally distant from the transverse center line, and grooved at each end a relatively short distance from the end, one of the end grooves being made from one side of the sheet and the other from the other side, whereby the sheet is formable into a hollow container side wall having both ends bent back on themselves, and overlapping and interlocking and a general circular shape with a portion thereof flattened, and means passing through the side wall where it overlaps and interlocks holding the ends in fixed relation and a carrying handle also secured by said means, a bottom sheet and means for attaching the bottom sheet to the side wall and maintaining the bottom sheet in place.

SIDNEY I-I. SONN. 

